Nineteenth Century America
Cornelia Hancock’s Civil War: A Q & A with Caroline Ivanoff
Several years ago, I wrote a book about nurses in the American Civil War. It looked at the story of civil war nurses as a group, told through the experiences of individual women. One of my favorites, was a young Quaker woman named Cornelia Hancock, who made her way to Gettysburg as a volunteer nurse.…
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Attic Wife: A Q & A with Marcia Biederman
Attic Wife: The Shocking Case of Agnes Young McAlpin by Marcia Biederman is the true story of an Alaska Native woman who married a young white dentist’s apprentice during the Klondike Gold Rush. Soon regretting his choice, he brought her back to his Pennsylvania home, where his mother and sister, mortified by the interracial marriage, concealed…
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From the Archives: Eugene V. Debs: Socialist for President, Over and Over Again
Over the Labor Day weekend, My Own True Love and I attended a Labor Day program that was part of the AFL-CIO’s “labor in the pulpit” program, which featured a group called the Bound for Glory Singers who focus on Woody Guthrie’s music. My Own True Love was on the stage singing; I was in…
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